It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Questions outlive the answers.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.